Bomber Command: The Victoria Cross Raids
Martyn Chorlton
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Add to basketRAF Bomber Command lost 55,000 men during WWII. Their motto was Press on Regardless and the majority of their operational missions involved flying into the fiery, smoke-filled skies of occupied Europe. No less than 23 of their members were awarded Britain's highest decoration for valour The Victoria Cross; most of them posthumously." Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 12. Weight in Grams: 494. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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This book tells the stories of the 23 men who won Britain's highest military accolade for Bomber Command during World War II.
Bomber Command's catchphrase of 'Press on Regardless' was never better exemplified than in the extraordinary bravery of the men whose exploits are recounted here. These are stories of incredible heroism, often carried out in the face of certain death.
The subject is brought to life with detailed accounts, alongside photos of the men themselves and their aircraft. The actions described begin with the Battle of France in 1940 and go through to the final stages of the bomber offensive over Germany in February 1945.
Among the heroes you'll meet are:
Wing Commander Roderick 'Babe' Learoyd, who set off to bomb the Dortmund-Ems Canal aqueduct on 12 August, had his plane shot to pieces, but somehow managed to successfully fly it home and land what was left of it
Pilot Officer Donald Garland, Sgt Thomas Gray and Air Gunner Reynolds, who volunteered without hesitation to attack a bridge at Veldwezelt
Pilot Officer AC Mynarski, whose loyalty to his fellow airmen saved their lives but cost him his own
Air Commodore Hughie Edwards, the first of only three Australian airmen to be awarded the VC, who led a bombing raid over Bremen
Sgt James Allen Ward, the boy from Wanganui, who earned his VC for climbing out on the wing of his aircraft in total darkness, to extinguish a fire caused by enemy contact
Wing Commander Guy Gibson, who led No 617 Squadron in the Dam Busters raid of 1943, and ultimately completed over 170 sorties during the war
Those are just a handful of the accounts that appear in this fascinating book. The 23 men here not only represent the 55,000 who were killed during the Bomber Command raids, but also the hundreds of thousands who survived.
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